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Fergusson College recently hosted a "NATIONAL conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applications". Needless to say, every participant was from Pune...

pg wrote about this years ago. >If you understand how compilers work, what's really going on is not so much that Lisp has a strange syntax as that Lisp has no syntax. You write pro…

Finnish is Uralic, not Indo-European.

Listen to this man. Anyone who studies a dead language for “real-world gain” will probably end up disappointed. The only real reason to learn is so you can read old books in that l…

> You easy almost all languages have their roots from Sanskrit. The grammar rules for German and Finnish, for example, are a subset of Sanskrit. Your claims are a subset of the “ev…

>isn't being held captive behind closed doors waiting for Sanskrit-speaking liberators Over-dramatizing the other guy's statement does not constitute a response. Even ignoring the …

Feel like it’s worth highlighting this part of the post: >There is no good reason to do this I get that it’s a cool easter egg, but please, please don't do this.

The site has a page on "Vimanika shastra"[1] ("Science of Flying Machines"), which is known to be a bullshit text from the 20th century[2]. Definitely a Hindutva site. [1] https://…

>stretching things beyond their limits. There's a line between writing a chess program in SED and claiming it's a good idea.

It isn't satire.

Before someone makes the inevitable "Why are they spending money on this instead of fixing poverty?" argument: The whole Mars mission costs about as much as making four Bollywood m…

>It is sufficient to prove a program correct - as long as your proof is not faulty! This is unquestionable truth. Proof: Proposition A(X): X is true in theory Proposition B : For a…

Speaking of the ¥, notice how it's right under the |? Early Japanese codepages put ¥ where ASCII has the backslash. Even today, on most (if not all) OSes render the \ as ¥ when usi…

Thanks for pointing these out. Looks like I need to reread the book.

> Being an adult is being able to handle responsibilities and take care of yourself in the world. Being a grown-up is being a prig whose soul died years ago. A fair opinion, but I …

I read it recently, and found it to be Atlas Shrugged for 5-year-olds. The only point of the story is to say: "YOU, the reader, being a child, are so much better and smarter than a…

It's like Rick Santorum satirizing conservatism.

Yes, he is.

Yes, GPU brute-force is more effective than rainbow tables. I heard you the first time. I wasn't even talking about rainbow tables. > scrypt/bcrypt do the right thing, regardless, …

I remember switching from KeePass over poor Linux support, but looking at its page now, it looks like it runs on Linux just fine. I'll have to give it another look, I guess.

Don't know about 1Password, but LastPass encrypts all passwords client-side. Only marginally less safe than storing passwords in an encrypted file on your personal machine.

Having a different salt for each account means that identical passwords don't hash to the same value. This prevents low-effort attacks like this one: http://7habitsofhighlyeffectiv…

See the original paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/